When the Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions, the expectation — based on statistical modeling presented in court — was that the proportion of Black students at highly selective schools would go down and the proportion of Asian American students would rise. That is what happened at many colleges and universities. But as schools have…
In Caddo, Okla., a two-block stretch of the small town contains churches of at least four denominations, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and nondenominational. More than four in five voters in the neighboring counties went Republican in the last national election. This rural region near the border with Texas might seem an ideal testing ground for an…
For months now, President Trump has been threatening to deport foreign students who took part in last year’s campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Behind the scenes, his administration got to work. Investigators from a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically focuses on human traffickers and drug smugglers scoured the internet for social…
Jonathan Holloway, the president of Rutgers University, will be stepping down at the end of this academic year, ending a turbulent five-year term in which he both strengthened the university and faced criticism and controversy. Dr. Holloway, a historian of the African American experience who himself made history as Rutgers’ first Black president, said in…
Texas Tech University has shut down its campus and sent students home early for spring break after a series of explosions and manhole fires, the university said in an emergency alert. An explosion at a substation near the school Wednesday evening caused power outages across campus, the university said. Conditions quickly devolved, with the university…
The group that successfully sued Harvard to end affirmative action in university admissions last year is now threatening to investigate whether schools are complying with the new rules and to file lawsuits if it believes that they are not. The group, Students for Fair Admissions, has focused on three universities — Princeton, Yale and Duke…
As David C. Banks, the New York City schools chancellor, prepared to take the stage at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens on Tuesday to deliver his annual State of Our Schools address, a highlight reel from the last school year was projected onto a large screen. In one scene, an elementary-school-aged…
As printed textbooks increasingly gather dust in classroom bookshelves, a new and expansive survey published on Thursday finds that social studies teachers are turning to digital sources and primary documents from the nation’s past. While the most popular curriculum providers are not ideologically skewed, the report warned about a trend of “moralistic cues” in some…
Over the course of 20 days in March 2020, 55 million American children stopped going to school as Covid-19 swept the United States. What was impossible to anticipate then was that millions of those students would not return to classrooms full-time until September 2021, a year and a half later. Those children and teenagers, often…
The University of Maryland said it was conducting a review of claims that its president, Darryll J. Pines, plagiarized significant portions of a 2002 scholarly paper. The university’s decision to conduct a review followed disclosures in The Daily Wire, a publication co-founded by the conservative activist Ben Shapiro. Dr. Pines asked that the allegations be…
